Breakout Sessions-Day 1

January 9, 2008

Breakout Sessions #1, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Techncial Breakout 1a - Building Better Metadata

Time	Session	Leader
1:30-2:15	FGDC and ISO Geospatial Metadata Standards	Ted Habermann
2:30-3:15	GCMD DocBuilder, DIF and SERF Metadata	Tyler Stevens

There is the possibility of an additional educational metadata best practices session as well (TBA)

Technical Breakout 1b - Semantic Web

• Use cases for semantic web development
• Developing ontologies
• Other topics TBA

Breakout Sessions #2, 3:45-5:45 p.m.

Technical Breakout 2a - Registering Data and Services (GCMD, GOS)

Time	Session	Leader
3:45-4:15	GCMD Data/Services Registration	GCMD presenter TBD
4:30-5:00	GOS Registration Model(s) (harvesting, metadata upload)	John Kozimor
5:15-5:45	Registering air quality web services with metadata catalogs	Stephan Falke

Technical Breakout 2b - Developing an Ontology for Services

• Classifying services and describing service interfaces to support "smart" workflow composition (presentations by Liping Di & Rahul Ramachandran)
• Begin development of core services ontology
• Exchange experiences with semantic software stacks (triple stores, inference engines, rules engines, etc.)

Issue Breakout 2 - Water Management Cluster Meeting

Session Leaders Tim Owen, NOAA/NCDC and Will Pozzi, CREW/WaterNet

Session Rapporteur Carol Meyer, ESIP Federation

Session Objectives

• To connect portal and ontological development in water management with user requirements for products, services, and data discovery tools; and
• To consider these connections in the context of an emerging climate cluster (to include water management, air quality, and the carbon cycle)

Agenda

Time	Session	Leader
3:45	Opening Remarks	Dick Wertz
3:50	Preamble Presentations: Portal Synergies in Water and Drought and Ontological Development as a Foundation for Products and Services in Water Management	Tim Owen, Will Pozzi, Jeff Arnfield, and Tyler Stevens
4:10	Review of Submitted ‘One-Pagers’ (click here for template)	Will Pozzi
4:25	Moderated Panel Discussion (use case TBD)	Tim Owen
5:30	Summary of Discussion and Next Steps	Carol Meyer

Potential Discussion Topics

• Ontologies
• Metadata/registries
• Inventories
• Knowledge directories
• Data discovery from GCMD portal perspective (ECV, WaterNet, CUASHI)
• On-line catalogues, networking, and screen scraping capabilities
• Standards and service-oriented architecture (USGEO/ADM perspectives)
• Matching resources (data tools, models, research papers, visualization overlays) with accessibility (RISA/AASC/REACT perspectives)
• Semantic capabilities – textual and graphic – of targeted user groups

One-Pagers